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Perfect Rice: A Six Sentence Story
I love our rice cooker; it makes perfect rice every time, but my wife says it is a hassle to clean, but that doesn’t make any sense; she means it is a hassle to store and haul out when needed again, but clean-up is easier than scrubbing a saucepan—especially when I’m making (burning) the rice. Read more
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I’ll Stick With Land: A Six Sentence Story
I was about two hundred feet underwater when I felt I had to force oxygen into my lungs, and I didn’t think I could hold my breath as I swam fast, but not too fast to the surface so I wouldn’t suffer what divers call “the bends”–decompression sickness. It was 1977, and I was diving Read more
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Jonathan Pie
With the exception of Jon Steward, Jonathan Pie (comedian Tom Walker) is my favorite political comedian. Though I find myself laughing at his howling at British politics, that I usually don’t understand, he also covers U.S politics where his analysis is, in my opinion, spot on. The difference between Steward and Pie is Pie does Read more
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The Best Books I Read in 2024
It’s 2025 and it’s time to review the books I read last year. This post just like the 2019 post I finished and actually published five years ago was supposed to be the first in a tradition, but. the 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 “Best Books I Read” never got published because I always got Read more
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The Dipmobile Rides Again
Back in college, my dad, tired of having to repair my sporty, candy-green Volkswagen Sirocco lemon, turned it in for a shit-brown two-door Plymouth box on wheels. The car looked like my mom’s Dodge Dart, a car she was embarrassed to be seen driving, but her car looked like a Bentley compared to my turd Read more
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